[imp] Re: Bug#88980: imp: Doesn't support multiple recipients in address book

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>:

> Is this a known bug?

Known, yes.

> > The address book prohibits commas in the address book address entry
> > for no logical reason, which means that users can't easily set up
> > their own recipient lists.

No, it prohibits them for a very logical reason: they cause problems really,
really screw things up and which would require rewriting nearly all of the
addressbook and compose routines in 2.2. We chose to write 2.3 instead.

-chuck

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